New Releases

[Symphonic Addict]

At last CPO has completed the Raff's string quartet cycle.

[Mookalafalas]

Apparently this came out a month ago. Didn't see it listed here...



  Not on my radar at all.

[ritter]

Apparently this came out a month ago. Didn't see it listed here...



  Not on my radar at all.

Seems to have been postponed until mid-May this year.

This set of course would interest me, but the price of US$ 240 for 44 CDs appears steep, relative to similar sets (particularly considering there'd be a helluva duplication in my collection: all the Stravinsky stuff --in multiple incarnations--, the Webern --recently released in the cheap "white" Sony series, etc). Let's see...

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[Lisztianwagner]

Apparently this came out a month ago. Didn't see it listed here...



  Not on my radar at all.

Seems to have been postponed until mid-May this year.

This set of course would interest me, but the price of US$ 240 for 44 CDs appears steep, relative to similar sets (particularly considering there'd be a helluva duplication in my collection: all the Stravinsky stuff --in multiple incarnations--, the Webern --recently released in the cheap "white" Sony series, etc). Let's see...

It would be a great box set for Stravinsky and the Second Viennese School indeed, but the price is disheartening to say the least....

[relm1]

https://www.nonesuch.com/albums/dante

[Brian]

May release, 33 CDs.





Complete contents:
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9456615--herbert-blomstedt-the-complete-decca-recordings

[JBS]

May release, 33 CDs.





Complete contents:
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9456615--herbert-blomstedt-the-complete-decca-recordings

The cover art for many of those recordings is a good reason on its own to get the set.

[Todd]

[brewski]

Looking forward to this new recording of Georges Aperghis' 14 Récitations (1977-78) for solo voice, with soprano Stephanie Lamprea. Hearing these a few years ago changed my ideas about vocal music.



From the New Focus Recordings website:

Written in 1977–8, George Aperghis' 14 Récitations are among the most challenging masterpieces of contemporary solo vocal writing. The fact that Aperghis originally wrote them for the French comedian and singer Martine Viard offers a clue to their aesthetic. Each Récitation operates in a similar emotional register to a miniature opera, but with a plot that is unknown and a text that at best teeters on the edge of intelligibility (the texts are in French, but cut up into syllables and jumbled, sometimes using homophones borrowed from other languages). Yet their dramatic form – like that of comedy – exists independently of semantic meaning. Like comedy, too, they subvert and demolish stereotypes.

-Bruce

[Mandryka]

[Ras]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BNNPBHW1/ref=dm_rwp_pur_lnd_albm_unrg
J.S. Bach & Arvo Pärt with Arabella Steinbacher, Christoph Koncz and Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - They play Bach's violin concertos and two pieces by Arvo Part: "Mirror in Mirror" and "Fratres".

The viol consort Phantasm has just released an arrangements of various pieces by J.S. Bach.
earlier they recorded the WTC.
https://www.amazon.com/Well-Tempered-Consort-Bach-Dreyfus-Phantasm/dp/B0BQN793D3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=36QSLFO8ZID8Q&keywords=phantasm+bach&qid=1676069432&s=music&sprefix=phantasm+bach%2Cmusic-intl-ship%2C206&sr=1-1

[Ras]

J.S. Bach: St. John Passion
Lars Ulrik Mortensen conducting on Berlin Classics - I don't know the release date. Here is the link to German amazon:
https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Lars-Ulrik-Mortensen/dp/B0BRLVP252/ref=sr_1_4?crid=3LAR79FG9JF08&keywords=bach+mortensen&qid=1676070102&sprefix=bach+mortensen%2Caps%2C96&sr=8-4

G. Antonini has recorded Bach's first Orchestral Suite with a modern German orchestra on modern instruments:
https://open.spotify.com/album/1pDqAggVl5QHoIpuWJxVBi?si=wKqfpUnNQ2SjJjPU-fbEfA

[Mookalafalas]

It would be a great box set for Stravinsky and the Second Viennese School indeed, but the price is disheartening to say the least....

  If you are not in a hurry, I am confident the price will fall dramatically--perhaps, eventually, by half.

[Mandryka]

[Mookalafalas]

Holy crap. Another Abbado box? Must be a record, and this is a behemouth. 265 disks for $955  30 pounds. 

[Mandryka]

Bach model Dieupart completely redefined.

Bob van Asperen dispels false facts in Dieupart's biography and does away with inadequate editions of music.

After intensive research, he presents for the first time sensational evidence about the life of Dieupart, who did not die impoverished in London as previously assumed, but rather enjoyed a peaceful retirement in France. Even more important are the insights about the genesis of the original scores and the conclusions Bob van Asperen draws from them with regard to a proper performance of the works.

J.S. Bach was obviously an admirer, quoted an exceptional amount from the suites in a number of his own works, and wrote out copies of them himself unequivocal proof of the quality of this music, which can possibly now be heard for the first time on a recording as it was originally conceived.

Also to be heard, in addition to the well-known cycle of six suites, are two newly discovered works. In the very extensive booklet text, the world-famous harpsichordist himself elucidates the biography and work of the important Frenchman.

[Brian]

Holy crap. Another Abbado box? Must be a record, and this is a behemouth. 265 disks for $955  30 pounds. 

I've seen it at other sources for $750, but even so it is a laugher.